Hi All,
I'm trying to set a normal ringtone on my S3, one that just goes 'ring ring'.
There doesn't appear to be one included in the stock ROM? Surely that cant be right?
If i haven't missed a stock tone, can i add a custom mp3 of a 'ring ring' phone without the use of an app?
If not can i have a list of recommended apps for this please.
SteveTilsed said:
Hi All,
I'm trying to set a normal ringtone on my S3, one that just goes 'ring ring'.
There doesn't appear to be one included in the stock ROM? Surely that cant be right?
If i haven't missed a stock tone, can i add a custom mp3 of a 'ring ring' phone without the use of an app?
If not can i have a list of recommended apps for this please.
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Make folders on your pc with the heirachy system>media>audio>ringtones.
Put your custom mp3 in the ringtones folder, copy and paste to phone. Done.
There are apps that assign a ringtone from any file on your phone, but I've never tried them.
You don't need to do that. There's already a folder called Ringtones on the phone. Just copy any mp3 into there and you can select it as a Ring tone.
I know there's already a folkder called ringtones on the phone...
Out of curiosity I tried your way and it didn't work for me. I've used "my" way since my SGS1 days.
http://www.multiupload.co.uk/DJL7QNKXMZ
Phone ring tones .
jje
Thanks lads.
I couldn't believe samsung hadn't included 'normal' ringtones but found some on Zedge from the play store.
Anyone know how to change the touch tones?
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Just got my Hero and I am loving it!
But how do I use my own MP3's as ringtones and notifications?
I keep answering these Q's on the basis that I'm pretty sure the Hero will behave like The Magic as its the closest cousin and also runs Android 1.5 so
Try this - on the root of your SD card you need to make a folder structure the same as on the device itself. Media folder with Audio folder inside. Audio folder with alarms, notifications and ringtones inside.
Media/Audio/alarms
Media/Audio/notifications
Media/Audio/ringtones
and put files you want to use for each of those in there and they *should* then show in the list that comes up for those functions.
I think mp3 are fine for all of those, but alarm and notification seem to be mostly .ogg files so if you have an easy converter, might be worth converting. I think I converted the main one I use for my alarm to ogg using WMP11
And having said all that, simply long holding on a music file will usually allow you to set it as a ringtone, wherever you store it on your SD.
Daisy xx
you are our guru
thats for the info in the threads dazee
we are all learning again with the hero
Hey, cool to feel like an expert for a bit til the wizz kids take over. I'm killing time waiting for my Hero....
Actually, you can find most of these answers in the Sapphire forums or Dream forums as they are mostly Android 1.5 questions rather than device specific. Perhaps the mods should have an Android Forum since loads of stuff is duplicated and triplicated between the three android devices....
and that's only my hundredth post - so really, I'm the noob... LOL
Thanks for the help, but it's not working for me.
I have created Media\Audio\notifications as you suggested and put an MP3 in there, but I dont see it in my notification sounds list.
In what specific way am I being thick!?
For short stuff like alarms and notifications, they might need to be .ogg so you may need to convert for them to show up.
LOL You are a pioneer since most of us don't have a Hero device to try anything as yet
In my settings for the magic I also have a choice in Sound and display to check Sd Card Notifications, and I'm not sure if that's what is needed - and of course - I have a magic not a Hero so it could be totally different...
Right, I got it working. Possibly by enabling those SD Card notifications. I did restart the phone as well. Either way, its working!
Thank you for your efforts in helping!
Oooh restart rings a bell, actually - I recall that possibly was something I had to do on the Magic before the files appeared in the lists!!
Cool. Nice Teamwork If this keeps up I'll have solved all my own potential probs before I even get my Hero
Also confirmed ...
a combination of enabling SD notifications (off by default) creating folder structure exactly as it appears ( case sensitive) and transferring files over and a reboot for good measure - these now appear in ringtone and more importantly under notifications.
filetypes tested - mp3, wav and ogg - all appeared.
Thanks for the advice !
I found that just creating a /notifications folder on the SD card worked fine. Didn't need to reboot or anything.
Dayzee said:
I keep answering these Q's on the basis that I'm pretty sure the Hero will behave like The Magic as its the closest cousin and also runs Android 1.5 so
Try this - on the root of your SD card you need to make a folder structure the same as on the device itself. Media folder with Audio folder inside. Audio folder with alarms, notifications and ringtones inside.
Media/Audio/alarms
Media/Audio/notifications
Media/Audio/ringtones
and put files you want to use for each of those in there and they *should* then show in the list that comes up for those functions.
I think mp3 are fine for all of those, but alarm and notification seem to be mostly .ogg files so if you have an easy converter, might be worth converting. I think I converted the main one I use for my alarm to ogg using WMP11
And having said all that, simply long holding on a music file will usually allow you to set it as a ringtone, wherever you store it on your SD.
Daisy xx
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This worked for me, thanks Dayzee
The Jones said:
Just got my Hero and I am loving it!
But how do I use my own MP3's as ringtones and notifications?
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Search for RingDroid in the Market. It finds all youre mp3's on the sd-card. Then you can open youre fav mp3, shorten it and save it and make it youre ringtone or notification tone
So, another little question, specific to HTC Mail app. Is it possible to change the notification sound for HTC Mail specifically? I havent found a way yet.
The Jones said:
So, another little question, specific to HTC Mail app. Is it possible to change the notification sound for HTC Mail specifically? I havent found a way yet.
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You will find it under settings in the mail application
sixpackbud said:
You will find it under settings in the mail application
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I can select in there whether or not there is a sound at all, but not which specific sound. Unless I am missing something...
Thanks
Thanks Dayzee, your post helped me out!
The Jones - I believe the HTC mail app uses the default Android notification tone you set in the usual place.
Sam
samos69 said:
Thanks Dayzee, your post helped me out!
The Jones - I believe the HTC mail app uses the default Android notification tone you set in the usual place.
Sam
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Hmm, thanks for confirming that. Shame, slightly annoying actually, I want a different sound for incoming work emails. The sound of me not reading them usually!!
I agree that it is odd not to be able to select a custom notification for the HTC email app. In fact all notification events should be grouped together somewhere for control and customisation.
Plenty scope for improvement in that area though.
speaking of sounds, my alarm is horribly low volume, even though i set both ringer and notification sounds to max....ahm, what am i missing?
huh, 2-3h later discovered that when picking out alarm sound, volume rocker is used to set alarm volume....kinda silly to hide it like that :/
I'm really missing a notifications app in general that will allow me to choose loits of different things like colour of light, tune/tone etc for various functions.
There's an app called Missed Call that allows you to choose colour for SMS flashing notification and for missed calls and I think bluetooth but not much else.
Would be FABULOUS to set a few personal contacts to have their own indicator colour
Daisy xxx
Bit of a strange one.. When I try and set a custom ringtone for a call, I can't because it doesn't show any other than the system defaults but it does show the custom ring tones for all of the notifications such as text/email/system notifications...
Any ideas to why? If there is another topic for this please point me that direction for it?
No one else had this then? Just me?
tehrules said:
No one else had this then? Just me?
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This was an issue on my Motorola Milestone.
For me all I needed to do was create a folder called “ringtones” (all lower case) and it found them. Haven't had time to put them on the Atrix, but I'm sure it's the exact same procedure...
ccrows said:
This was an issue on my Motorola Milestone.
For me all I needed to do was create a folder called “ringtones” (all lower case) and it found them. Haven't had time to put them on the Atrix, but I'm sure it's the exact same procedure...
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I have this folder, that's the bizarre bit. They show up under every other status ringtone selection other than the actual ringing tone menu lol?
U should try Ring Extended.. It works for me.. search on the market.
if you are using gingerblur / gladiatrix reboot the phone and you will see the ringtones. these scripts have an option enabled to stop updating some folders on the phone.
franciscojavierleon said:
if you are using gingerblur / gladiatrix reboot the phone and you will see the ringtones. these scripts have an option enabled to stop updating some folders on the phone.
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This is occuring on a non-rooted phone, and it was fine until I plugged it into the computer and unplugged it again and since I haven't been able to fix it lol.
And I don't want to use an app for a basic system function. I've managed to manually set it through winamp anyway now.
I am experiencing the same issue. I'll use a 3rd party app to assign a ringtone (like ringdroid or mp3 ringtone maker) and it use that ringtone for a while and then magically revert back to the the phone's default ringtone at some point.
I was trying to change my ringtone and when i tried to look at all the ringtones i had, only a few that i downloaded came up. All the default ones were gone and I can't find them anywhere. Can someone tell me what might have happened and how i can get them back?
I'm not quite sure what you did but they are stored in /system/media/ringtones
you can put the droid 3 ones in there if you want some default ringtones to fall back on.
if they are in there and you just cant see them when you go to change your ring tone download rescan media root from the market and run that
Ok thanks I got them back
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Since the other day,whenever a contact phones me,only the default phones ringtone would play-not the one I saved.
This happens on GB/ICS and JB.I can change the contact ringtone and save it,but that makes no difference.
Ive tried all I know and even selecting a different inbuilt .ogg file doesnt change the tone either-whatever default tone plays.
Only thing I think it could be is a .nomedia file problem somewhere on the phone,but Im stumped as Ive reflashed the phone and formatted usb storage and still no joy.
Gt-I9100
4.0.3
Siyah 4.0.1
Cheers
theunderling said:
Since the other day,whenever a contact phones me,only the default phones ringtone would play-not the one I saved.
This happens on GB/ICS and JB.I can change the contact ringtone and save it,but that makes no difference.
Ive tried all I know and even selecting a different inbuilt .ogg file doesnt change the tone either-whatever default tone plays.
Only thing I think it could be is a .nomedia file problem somewhere on the phone,but Im stumped as Ive reflashed the phone and formatted usb storage and still no joy.
Gt-I9100
4.0.3
Siyah 4.0.1
Cheers
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U everytime use same kernel?
Do u test different contacts?
It's only on google/Sim or phone contacts? - Did u test other contects?
Using an app to set the ringtones for each contact or directly via android?
CHEERS
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U everytime use same kernel?
Do u test different contacts?
It's only on google/Sim or phone contacts? - Did u test other contects?
Using an app to set the ringtones for each contact or directly via android?
CHEERS
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Its on everything(you cant set ringtones for sim contacts btw).Ive tried on all contacts and even created new ones to test-just the same.
Am back on GB,and I noticed that in settings>sound>phone ringtone...when I change the ringtone it still shows "set default incoming call ringtone".I could get the tone I selected shown in that area when I was on ics/jb.....but made no difference.
Ive done wipes on internal and external storage,contacts,media..but still the problems remain.
Gb=siyah 2.6.14
Ics=siyah 4.0.1
Jb=dorimanx
Ok that's really strange, never heard about a prob like that.
Last option is to try on stock or another Rom (did u use the same rom on each android versions?)
If this also won't bring a better result I've no idea more atm, sry.
Much success
CHEERS
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Yeah it had me stumped also,I farted about for 6 hours trying different roms and kernels/settings.
When I tried my sons sim card in the phone,the tones worked ok.When I tried my sim in his phone,the tones worked.It just seemed that my sim in my phone combo failed.
Anyway my wife found a workaround.She used the music app and set the caller tone through that.She set message tone/notification tone through ringpod app.So now I can get the tones I want.
Cheers
Hey maybe change the ringtone for a contact!RestArt and try it again!
Which Rom do usw?
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I have never had this problem with another device. My Google Voice is set to use data instead of the native phone dialer and that means the app has to ring when someone calls me. Unfortunately this ends up being my default notification sound just repeating endlessly. When I go to the ringtone list, there are no ringtones there, only notification tones to choose from. This is extremely obnoxious and while setting my watch to intercept notifications from Voice is a workaround, it's not ideal.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app to no avail. I did find a video where someone had this problem on a Pixel but they were able to resolve it since the Pixel doesn't limit you to notifications or ringtones in the selection menu, both are readily available. This doesn't seem to be the case with Samsung though.
A possibile workaround is coping app your desired ringtone file into the notification folder from the ringtone folder. I accidentally added all my notifications files to the ringtone folder and they all showed up as possible ringtones so the same could work both ways I assume
spart0n said:
A possibile workaround is coping app your desired ringtone file into the notification folder from the ringtone folder. I accidentally added all my notifications files to the ringtone folder and they all showed up as possible ringtones so the same could work both ways I assume
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Thanks! That worked perfectly! I didn't realize it was that easy. I don't ever add ringtones to my phones lol.
EtherealRemnant said:
Thanks! That worked perfectly! I didn't realize it was that easy. I don't ever add ringtones to my phones lol.
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I learned this a long time ago, glad it still works. Ever since about android 8 I've had my personal set of tones I prefer so I keep both folders on my PC and every new phone gets them copied to the respective folders
spart0n said:
I learned this a long time ago, glad it still works. Ever since about android 8 I've had my personal set of tones I prefer so I keep both folders on my PC and every new phone gets them copied to the respective folders
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I may have to get some custom ones now that I know how easy it is.
EtherealRemnant said:
I may have to get some custom ones now that I know how easy it is.
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Zedge is a good app to get stuff on device, lots of ads and it pushes a lot iap but the core functionality is free.